{"id":11916,"date":"2017-03-05T15:21:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T20:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11916"},"modified":"2017-03-08T19:44:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T00:44:42","slug":"toxonotus-cornutus-a-fungus-weevil-family-anthribidae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11916","title":{"rendered":"<em>Toxonotus cornutus<\/em> (a Fungus Weevil, Family Anthribidae)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11918\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170305_136472.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11918\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170305_136472-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Toxonotus cornutus (a Fungus Weevil, Family Anthribidae)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11918\" data-wp-pid=\"11918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170305_136472-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170305_136472-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170305_136472-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170305_136472-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170305_136472-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170305_136472.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Toxonotus cornutus<\/em> (a Fungus Weevil, Family Anthribidae)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our dear friend Susan gave me a present this morning. It was beautifully presented in a hot pink gift bag. What was it? It was this insect which she wondered if I could identify. At a glance I said it was a beetle of some sort but beyond that I needed to look at it under some magnification. It&#8217;s between 5 and 6 millimeters long, so on the small side and my first thought was some sort of carpet beetle. Then I saw from the side that it had something of a snout. That led to the fungus weevils of family Anthribidae and I tracked it down to <em>Toxonotus cornutus<\/em>. Not particularly rare but so small that you are likely to miss it much of the time. Not a big pest, either, and happily nothing like a bed bug or other really nasty creature. Thanks, Susan. Now I really know you care.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. The shiny metal thing under it is a pin on which the little creature is skewered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our dear friend Susan gave me a present this morning. It was beautifully presented in a hot pink gift bag. What was it? It was this insect which she wondered if I could identify. At a glance I said it was a beetle of some sort but beyond that I needed to look at it &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11916\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11916"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11921,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916\/revisions\/11921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}